genetic disease
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- noun
- /dʒəˈnɛtɪk dɪˈziːz/
- Specialized
- Researchers are studying over 6,000 genetic diseases to find potential treatments.
- developing a genetic disease
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Watch on YouTubeSo these are not classical Mendelian genetic diseases of large effect.
- So these are not classical Mendelian genetic diseases of large effect.
- And at the moment if you have a genetic disease, then you go through IVF and you then do what's called pre implantation selection.
- There are some genetic diseases that we know 'cause can aging.
- The beauty of this is it can be used to solve genetic diseases.
- They have a special name they call rare genetic diseases.
- And so you can't give somebody a sexually transmitted genetic disease unless they're your offspring.
- You put all those things together and you have to be a hopeless ideologue to think that cancer is a genetic disease.
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Surely progeria is among the saddest of genetic diseases and one of the rarest.
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Many genetic diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, can be inherited from parents.
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Your kids have a genetic disease.
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"In the Arab world, genetic diseases represent a major public health problem.
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As a genetic disease, BLAD cannot be spread to humans.
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Certain ethnicities carry certain genetic diseases.
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We agree with this assessment; like all complex genetic diseases, multiple genes may interact with environmental factors to produce the phenotype.
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Strong immune responses can be fatal, especially in someone already weakened by a genetic disease.
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CF is a genetic disease caused by mutations in a gene called the CFTR gene.
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Perhaps the best-known example is that of cystic fibrosis, a debilitating genetic disease that impairs breathing and digestion.
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Synonyms
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An illness that harms the body or mind and causes symptoms
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A health problem caused by changes in a person's genes that parents pass on
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A health problem from a change in someone's genes often passed from parents
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A change in a person's genes that causes a disease
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A disease passed from parents to their children through genes
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A disease passed from parents to children through genes
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A health problem parents can pass to their children through genes
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A disease parents pass to their children in their genes
A disease caused by a change in a single gene that a person inherits
A disease passed from parents caused by several genes acting together
An inherited disease caused by many genes, for example high blood pressure or type 2 diabetes
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a disease caused by genes or inherited' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'genetic' (pertaining to genes/heredity) with 'disease' (a medical condition). This adjective+noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows standard semantic modification, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand the MWE.
Etymology
Genetic disease comes from the idea that the problem is in a person's genes, the tiny instructions we get from our parents. Because faulty genes are 'passed on' or 'inherited' in a family, the phrase means a disease caused by those genes.